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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can retrieve packages that have been created by other users, or by you in another model, from version control and import them into your current model.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Other users might be creating packages to use in your model. If you are not sharing a SQL database or .EAP file, those packages do not automatically become part of your model. If the packages have been placed into version control, you can retrieve them and import them into your model as children of an existing package, using the </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-weight: bold;">Get Package</span><span class="f_BodyText"> command.</span></p>
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<li value=1><span class="f_NumberedList">You must have access to the package files through the version control system and you must define a Version Control Configuration through which to access those files. The version control configuration must use the same unique ID that was originally used to add the package to version control.</span></li>
<li value=2><span class="f_NumberedList">In the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Project Browser</span><span class="f_NumberedList">, right-click on the package to use as the parent of the incoming package.</span></li>
<li value=3><span class="f_NumberedList">Select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Package Control | Get Package</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> menu option. The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Get Shared File</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog displays.</span><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span><br>
<img src="dlgvcgetpkg.png" width="401" height="461" border="0" alt="DlgVCGetPkg"><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span></li>
<li value=4><span class="f_NumberedList">In the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Select a Version Control Configuration</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field, click on the drop-down arrow and select the version control configuration associated with the package to retrieve. The file list is populated with the names of files available through that configuration, for retrieval and import into your model.</span></li>
<li value=5><span class="f_NumberedList">Select the package file to import into your model and click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">OK </span><span class="f_NumberedList">button.</span></li>
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